Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, May 8, 2018. Wikimedia Commons.
Up on First View, a research article by Thomas Blake Earle grounds the experience of Vietnamese fishers on the coast of Texas in the history of the marine environment.
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"Abajo con Bakke: Latinos’ Leading Role in the Fight for Affirmative Action in the 1970s" by Lorrin Thomas
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"Vigilante Violence, the Rise of the New Right, and the Persistence of the Texas Farmworkers, 1975–1980" by Brent M.S. Campney & @tbowmanhist.bsky.social
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"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" by @alexinternational.bsky.social
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This issue features new research from @alexinternational.bsky.social , Brent M.S. Campney & @tbowmanhist.bsky.social, and Lorrin Thomas.
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Inside Issue 8.3: Adriane Lentz-Smith and comedian and journalist @roywoodjr.bsky.social in conversation on the importance of community, and how history informs comedy.
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Inside Issue 8.3: A Q&A on the relationship between historical scholarship and the energy humanities. @imreszeman.bsky.social and @calebwellum.bsky.social facilitated a conversation with Cara Daggett, Bob Johnson, and Jennifer Wenzel on the state of the field.
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Kate Andrias presents a legal history of the NLRA, highlighting the precarious state of labor law.
Christian Oswaldo Paiz argues that histories of the labor movement need to incorporate the history of non-white immigrants to tell the full story of labor activism.
Joseph A. McCartin charts the history of the NLRA from its passage to the present day, arguing that only through collective action can the labor movement be revitalized.
Joe Piette, Amazon warehouse workers outside the National Labor Relations Board, October 25, 2021, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Inside Issue 8.3: Three takes on the 1935 National Labor Relations Act
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Farmworkers gather for a small rally during a 1966 march from San Juan, Texas, to the state capitol in Austin to protest their appalling working conditions. Courtesy Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas.
Tim Bowman and Brent M. S. Campney show how growers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas changed tactics in the 1980s from violence to a legal strategy of challenging unions' political power.
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Shortly after the Supreme Court decided to hear the Bakke case, in February 1977, Voz Fronteriza (Voice of the Border), the Chicano student newspaper at UC San Diego, ran this front-page image of an anti-Bakke protest. The banner in the background reads, “El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido” (“The People United Will Never Be Defeated”). Voz Fronteriza newspaper, Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection, California State University, Northridge University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Northridge, CA.
Inside Issue 8.3: Lorrin Thomas reframes our understanding of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke by restoring Latinos' place in the fight for affirmative action.
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Jon Butler closes out the forum with a response that emphasizes the new possibilities in religious history since the publication of "Jack-in-the-Box Faith" 20 years ago.
Aaron Griffith suggest that studies of the carceral state can be informed by religious history.
Alison Collis Greene urges historians to explore how religion informs the kinds of relationships humans had with the natural world.
Darren E. Grem explores new directions for southern religious history, highlighting opportunities to widen our understanding of religion in the southern United States.
Judith Weisenfeld highlights how recent work in African American history has incorporated the insight that religion was vital to the Civil Rights era to other periods of African American political action in modern American history.
Lauren Turek urges historians of U.S. foreign policy to incorporate religious history into their analysis.
Heath W. Carter says that historians of labor and the working class in the U.S. should incorporate religious history into their work.
Stephen M. Koeth argues for the centrality of religion to the history of suburban and urban histories.
Darren Dochuk introduces MAH's forum on Butler's article, and offers a look into how the field of religious history has expanded since the article's 2004 publication.
Front of the Brandenburg Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 215 Broadway in Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States. Wikimedia Commons
Ten scholars revisit Jon Butler’s 2004 Journal of American History article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” evaluating how it inspired historians to embed religion in “mainstream” modern U.S. history, and its legacy amidst historiographical trends.
Map of Bridgetown, Barbados, Directorate of Colonial Surveys, 1955. Wikimedia Commons.
Inside Issue 8.3: Using the history of emotions, Alex Goodall explores how white U.S. elite visitors' negative perceptions of the greater Caribbean can help us understand empire and race.
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